Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08
Straps aud fatts.

= Senator Ingalls,, Republican, of Kan
sas, is dissatisfied at the breach made in
the color line in some of the States of the
South. He is quoted in the Boston Herald
as having remarked recently II have NJ
hesitation in saying that granting the right
of suffrage to the colored people has prov
en- an absolute and unqualified failure"
Grant Brest, the colored youth who
killed three of his companions and wound
ed two more at one shot, near Wilmington,
N. G., q few weeks ago, has been tried in
the Superior Court of New Hanover couL-
ty for murder and found guilty. At the
time of the shooting there was a general
impression that it was the result of care
lessness. Best is II years old.
= The Sacramento Record Union reports
that q. 81. Orr, q prominent young lawyer
of South Carolina, is in Marysville, CAL,
Carolina people, having from $500 to &c.,
600 each, and comprising many families.
who have resolved to remove to California,
and have commissioned Mr.. Orr to locate
them.
The late Texas drought is said to have
disposed of the last few surviving buffaloes
in that State. In the wilds of Crockett
county q miserable remnant of the once
countless herds had been allowed to exc
out an existence without molestation from
the cowboys or the settlers. But when the
drought had destroyed crops and stock,
necessity drove the people to slaughter the
bnffaloes, and they are now no more.
is now estimated at the pension
Office that the number of Mexican pen
sion claims will not exceed $4,000. Eigh-
teen thousand, of which number three
thousand are widows claims, have already
been received, and two thousand two nun
dred certificates have been issued. 1t has
been determined to increase the force OF
the division having these cases in charge,
so that they may be turned out al the rate
of two hundred per diem.
Mayor Cooper, of Atlanta, asserts that
after considering the matter IN all its
phases, he is satisfied that prohibition in
Atlanta has proved success. He believes
that the experiment has demonstrated the
fact that prohibition laws can be enforced
without detriment to the business interests
of the city. The declaration is regarded
as significant, coming from a man who mas
been a consistent and pronounced Anti
Prohibitionist, and it has occasioned much
talk. @
Etwin not be long before preparations
for taking the eleventh census Will De
in order, and yet there are four volumes OF
the tenth census that have not been pub
lished yet. This is due in part to the fail
ure of Congress to make the necessary ap-
preparation, but the reason why Congress
has refused to do this is because of the
great delay of the statisticians in prepar-
ing the volumes for the press, which, it is
held, has destroyed their usefulness and
made it not worth while to publish them.
notwithstanding the murder Of two
Mormon elders in Lewis county, Tennes-
and the passage of a law by the legislature
making it a felony for any n to preach
the doctrine of polygamy in that State,
Mormon elders are again at work. Sever
al have made their appearance in Lincoln
and adjacent counties, and are quietly ex-
pounding the faith to the more ignorant
classes. Insome neighborhoods they have
met with a cold reception and been warn
ed to leave. None have been seen In
Lewis county since the massacre, buta few
have made q tour of counties in the middle
and eastern section. a1
Franklin J.. Moses, who, as Governor
/of South Carolina, at n time occupied a
large share of public attention, but who is
now an occupant of the Massachusetts
State Prison, has been pardoned by Gov
ernor Ames, and will be released from
confinement as soon as the customary for
malities can be complied with. The
strange career of Moses finally eliminated
in the forgery of the name of Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, the author, early
in the year 1885. In October of that year
he was sentenced to three years in the
State prison. It has been represented
that Moses was in poor health and could
not live long.
The national convention of colored
men appointed to meet in Indianapolis.
Ind, last Wednesday for the purpose OF
considering the political bondage in which
the race has been held since the war, was
but slimly attended, and adjourned with
out transacting any business of importance.
For several weeks prominent Republicans
there have been writing to colored men OF
influence in cities denouncing the propos-
ed meeting and claiming that it owed its
inception to Democratic influence, and
that the cOlored men who would take part
in it were under Democratic influence.
Mopely, who had charge of the local part
sof the programme, denounced these state
ments and declared that the Republicans
were opposed to any meeting of the colored
men which would tend to awaken a spirit
of independence among them. A resolu-
ton was adopted calling for a national con-
vention next June.
= The question of instrumental music in
churches will not stay settled in the Cen
erai Assembly of the United Presbyterian
Church. It came up in the General AS
sembly at Philadelphia last week, in the
discussion of the report of the General
Committee on Home Missions. TO bring
the point formally before the Assembly,
Al. b-.- y T1~o@- Eo1arnlnl hHy thu
Rev. George G.. Vincent, presented this
proposition: "Resolved, That no part of
the money appropriated in this report
shall be expended in any congregation
which is known to use instrumental music
in connection with the worship of God"
The yeas and nays were called for on this
resolution, the result being a decisive vic
tory for the advocates of instrumental
music. The resolution was Overwhel-
mingly defeated. The vote was: For in
strumental music, 122, against IS.
R. G.. Dun & Co.'s weekly. review of
trade for the last week gives an encour-
aging view of the situation. Reports are
cheering as to the crops and generally IA
yorable as to the state of business, collec-
tons and supply of money. Copious rains
dispel the agricultural gloom in Wisconsin,
crop prospects are frightened by rain in
Texas, and rains give encouragement IN
Alabama. In Alabama the most striking
feature is that 1000 stores and dwellings
are being erected at Birmingham alone,
an operation that turns some available
into fixed capital. The business failures
occurring throughout the country during
the week number for the United States
125, Canada Is, total $50 failures, against
I75 last week, and $50 the week previous
and 1877 for the corresponding week of
last year. Failures are steadily diminish
ing In all sections of the country, especial
ly in the Western States, where the num-